market trends

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Time for a new edi­tion of Sharp­Brains’ e‑newsletter explor­ing the lat­est dig­i­tal brain health tech­nolo­gies, neu­ro­science find­ings and insights for  life­long brain health and men­tal health.

New tools:

• Sur­vey of key sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal and invest­ment trends rev­o­lu­tion­iz­ing Brain Health in our Dig­i­tal Age
• Is Your iPhone Real­ly Fry­ing Your Brain? Five Things You Need To Know
• The Cana­di­an Cen­tre for Aging & Brain Health Inno­va­tion (CC-ABHI) is look­ing for tri­al part­ners to test inno­v­a­tive solutions
• Con­sumers exper­i­ment with tran­scra­nial direct cur­rent stim­u­la­tion (tDCS) with no reg­u­la­to­ry oversight
• Brain scans map­ping lan­guage and mem­o­ry areas can help guide epilep­sy-relat­ed surgeries

New research:

• Cog­ni­tive Behav­ioral Ther­a­py (CBT) + Med­ica­tion out­per­forms CBT alone to treat ADHD symp­toms among adults. At the same time…
• To reduce heart dis­ease and stroke risks, reg­u­late stress and improve brain health
• UT Dal­las researcher secures $2.7m grant to bet­ter mon­i­tor and address TBI-relat­ed cog­ni­tive and func­tion­al deficits
• The Mediter­ranean Diet seen to sub­stan­tial­ly reduce brain shrink­age among old­er adults
• Both mater­nal and parental obe­si­ty linked to young children’s neu­rode­vel­op­men­tal delays

New thinking:

• Improve edu­ca­tion, pro­duc­tiv­i­ty and health via brain enhancement
• Ten Impor­tant Sig­nals to help rein­vent Brain Health in the Dig­i­tal Age & serve the needs of an Aging Population
• 50 Final­ists from 37 coun­tries short­list­ed for the $1M Glob­al Teacher Prize
• The One New Year’s Res­o­lu­tion To Help You Keep All Your New Year’s Resolutions
• For­get think­ing vs. feel­ing dichoto­my. Think/ feel holis­tic brain functioning

 

Final­ly, here you are a fun brain teas­er to chal­lenge your frontal lobes.

 

We hope you enjoy all the neu­ro-stim­u­lat­ing reading 🙂

 

The Sharp­Brains Team